US Says NKorea Talks Moving Quickly, Trump to Leave Early

Crowds looked on as images aired of Kim disembarking from the Air China flight and shaking hands with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday.

Officials from the two sides held last-minute talks aimed at laying the groundwork for a meeting that was nearly unthinkable just months ago when the two leaders were exchanging insults and threats that raised fears of war.

Iizuka spoke highly of Trump's promise to include the abduction issue in the summit agenda along with the denuclearization of North Korea, hoping the return of the abductees will be ensured at the U.S.

But Cha said success for Trump on Tuesday is easier to describe - "a definitive commitment" from Kim to give up his nuclear arms and long-range missiles while also agreeing to a process for future talks. "The complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the Korea peninsula is the only outcome that the United States will accept".

The move was in reaction to North Korea's criticism of U.S. vice president Mike Pence's statement that the country could meet the same fate as Libya if it failed to meet a nuclear deal with the US.

Alluding to the North's concerns that giving up its nuclear weapons could surrender its primary deterrent to forced regime change, Pompeo told reporters that the us was prepared to take action to provide North Korea with "sufficient certainty" that denuclearization "is not something that ends badly for them".

A US ambassador to South Korea during the Obama administration, he led the advance talks with North Korea in the border village of Panmunjom.

Iizuka's younger sister Yaeko Taguchi was abducted by North Korea when she was 22 years old.

Kim is expected to stay at the St Regis hotel and Trump at the Shangri-La, both in the Tanglin area in downtown Singapore.

"It's hospitality that we would have offered them, and as Chairman Kim said yesterday, he would have liked to have come to Singapore anyway, with or without the summit", Dr. Balakrishnan told the BBC.

According to the White House, the plan for the summit is that after initial greetings Mr Trump and Mr Kim will hold a one-on-one meeting, then an expanded meeting with other representatives before a working lunch.

"I can only say this", Pompeo said.

Asked Saturday about his goals, he said: "Well, I think the minimum would be relationship". He told reporters he thinks he will know nearly immediately whether a deal can be made, saying: "I will know, just my touch, my feel". Considering Trump has admitted that he hasn't prepared for this upcoming meeting, he will need to rely on his alleged "best negotiator" skills to get the job done.

Pompeo, who shifted to his current role in the spring after serving as Trump's Central Intelligence Agency director, spent Monday morning preparing with his top advisers, aides said. On the US side, Trump was to be joined by Pompeo, chief of staff John Kelly, national security adviser John Bolton and US Ambassador to the Philippines Sung Kim, along with a few others.

Pompeo, who has traveled twice to Pyongyang to meet with Kim, told reporters Monday that North Korea has conveyed a willingness to denuclearize. Trump later accused the New York Times of quoting a senior White House official "who doesn't exist".

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